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MegaraptorReport

English:Megaraptor · Creatures

There is exactly one of them, sitting inside the half-drowned ancient citadel on Raptor Island. It is the Swamp Raptor scaled up, with health in the thousands and horns worth 1,500 apiece — but it never leaves the ruin, so the timing of the fight is entirely yours.

The Megaraptor is the raptor species scaled up: above the River Raptor and the Swamp Raptor sits this final form, with both stats and scale — health and size — pushed up across the board.

There is only one.

NoteThe raptor family shares one naming convention: Swamp Raptor, River Raptor, Megaraptor. The island it lives on, however, is Raptor Island in the sense of a bird of prey — do not let the two naming lines contaminate each other.

Appearance

The Megaraptor is a bipedal reptile built on exactly the same model as the Swamp Raptor; the difference is size. Its spawn age multiplier is fixed between 0.9x and 1.0x, meaning it does not grow or age the way wild animals do — you always meet the same individual at the same stage.

It also holds one unique distinction: it is the only animal in the game with a female chance of 100.

Where it lives

One place only: the centre of Raptor Island, north of the Fog Islands, inside the drowned ancient citadel ruin.

Raptor Island is a sandy landmass with a small mountain range in the middle and sparse shrubbery, prone to occasional acid rain. It has no towns, no outposts and no homeless spawns — only flocks of Swamp Raptors and up to six raptor nests. The island is nominally controlled by the Raptors animal faction, but the Megaraptor itself belongs to the Swamp Creatures faction, as do the island's ordinary Swamp Raptors.

The citadel it occupies also holds a spread of mid-range weapons and armour, which is a large part of the practical reason to go.

Combat threat

FieldValue
Strength80
Melee Attack / Defence / Dexterity / Toughness / Athletics60
Martial Arts6
Randomised by±2
Health1,020–2,472
Per-part health450–1,110
Extra attack slots1

Hit chance is 100 on head, chest, stomach and both forelegs, and only 50 on the two rear legs.

Damage formulae (against a target with 0% resistance):

The 18 is 13 minimum cut damage plus 5 points of pierce.

In practice the number that matters is health. A total pool from one thousand to nearly two and a half thousand, with every body part starting at 450, means this is not a fight burst damage can end. What you need is a front line that holds and enough sustained output.

Two pieces of good news:

  1. It is slow. Base speed 5–11 mph, and its combat movement multiplier is only 0.6 — it gets slower once the fight starts. You can almost always walk away.
  2. It never leaves the ruin. The timing of this fight belongs to you.

Drops and value

DropQuantityUnit price
Animal Skin20240 Cats
Horn of the Megaraptor101,500 Cats

Ten horns is 15,000 Cats, plus twenty animal skins. Measured against mid-game income that is an extremely profitable expedition, and the horns are pure trade goods you can sell on the spot.

TipAs with every animal, removing its death items kills an unconscious individual instantly. If you only wanted the horns and not the kill, that distinction does not exist here — those ten horns are its life.

What it means for the player

River Raptor, Horn of the Megaraptor, Fog Islands, Creatures